New Music Wiki

A promising new interactive Wiki for composers and performers of new music is now available entitled S21 New Music Wiki. Anyone can join, provide a bio, pictures, sound files and contribute articles and ideas about new music. You can add your music blog, and play a role in how the Wiki develops as an on-line resource.

The creator of the Wiki extends the following invitation:

What we hope to do here is to build a reader-created community/encylopedia of new music composers, performers, history, schools, important works--you literally name it. Since first person sources are always the best place to start, I am hoping that all of you who are active in creating and playing new music will create entries for yourself and the groups you are associated with....

You are also welcome to post entries for favorite composers or performers who no longer have access to wikis because they are dead. Don't post about people or events or movements that happened before 1900 unless they are essential to something that has happened in new music since.

For biographic entries, I envision a format of something like: bio, photograph (it's easy to upload an image-click on the Upload file link in the left nav bar), list of works, recordings (with links to place to purchase), reviews, with links, and anything else. Take as much space as you need, but if your entry is longer than Bartok's than you are probably hogging space.

I found this Wiki when I was creating my new specialized search engine and created a search term "music wiki." This was the first item that came up on the search. The openness of the site is attractive. Who knows? This music wiki might be at the right time with the right structure. Maybe this will become the definitive music wiki for contemporaries.

Try it. You might like it!